Re: Booting a NetBSD installer from pxelinux

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:08:15PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Thanks!, this is really and advance. I can get to the NetBSD
> bootloader, and using boot tftp:path/to/netbsd-INSTALL.gz finds and
> loads the kernel, but it's tedious to write boot tfp:path/to/kernel,
> is there some way to pass a config file as an argument to netbsdpxe.0?
> That would be great.
> 
> Another problem that I've found (both from the BETA6 CD or the PXE
> bootloader) is that "consdev comx" doesn't seem to work for me. I've
> tried all the comX options, but the kernel always throws it's output
> to the VGA port, any thoughts on this one? This is a Dell R310 by the
> way.

I've not tried 'consdev comx', but installboot -e does work for me.
I've found that on some systems the BIOS doesn't properly export com
parameters, and installboot also needs the I/O port and speed ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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